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SUMMARY:John Burroughs aka Jesus Crisis
DESCRIPTION:John Burroughs a.k.a. Jesus Crisis is a dynamic performer whose poetry books include Water Works\, Electric Company\, Beat Attitude\, It Takes More Than Chance to Make Changeand The Eater of the Absurd. He co-founded the annual Snoetry: A Winter Wordfest and hosts sundry events around Cleveland. Since 2008\, he has served as founding editor of Crisis Chronicles Press\, publishing superb writers from around the world.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-burroughs-aka-jesus-crisis/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170719T190000
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SUMMARY:Snap Salon
DESCRIPTION:Snap Judgment and Awaken Cafe presents… \nDoors at 7pm :: Show at 8pm\nFREE with RSVP: https://snapsalon.eventbrite.com/ \nJoin us for an intimate evening of storytelling with Snap Judgment Superstars James Judd\, Josh Healey\, and special guests Julia Jackson and Bridget Schwartz at Awaken Cafe. Enjoy a glass of wine and listen to seasoned storytellers share their craft. Free to RSVP\, so reserve your spot now! \nFeaturing… \nJosh Healey is an award-winning writer\, performer\, and creative activist. \nJames Judd’s Funny Stories is an American humorist and monologist. \nJulia Jackson \nBridget Schwartz
URL:https://litseen.com/event/snap-salon/
LOCATION:Awaken Cafe\, 1429 Broadway\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170719T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170719T210000
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SUMMARY:July Lyrics & Dirges: Duende!
DESCRIPTION:A sizzling summer reading with Lorca’s Duende as the theme. Come hear Youssef Alaoui\, Vida Felsenfeld\, Florencia Milito\, Norma Liliana Valdez\, Joshua Adam Anderson!!! \nFree refreshements and bookstore cats!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/july-lyrics-dirges-duende/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170719T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170719T213000
DTSTAMP:20260403T123820
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SUMMARY:Yanara Friedland + Claire Marie Stancek
DESCRIPTION:Yanara Friedland and Claire Marie Stancek discuss their new books from Noemi Press\, Uncountry: A Mythology and Mouths. \n\nPraise for Uncountry \n “Deep in the ethical vision of these prose pieces (each so dreamlike it seems the dream itself is dreaming) arrives the suggestion that the events of history—the heart-nulling wars\, the Holocaust\, the refugees broken by their own resistance; but also the personal fact\, the harm of being anyone—reach back into the ancient tales and refuse them their pre-ordained eternity.” Dan Beachy Quick \n\n“As a descendent of Chantal Akerman and Unica Zürn—among others—Friedland reimagines the origin myth. Friedland’s permeable pages allow the reader entryway into a “mirror [that] becomes an open door\,” a door through which we hear the echo of Ana Mendieta telling us “There is no original past to redeem: there is the void.” Uncountry is an invitation to that void\, and Friedland serves as dream guide through this blend of the personal\, political\, and stunningly poetic.” Lily Hoang \n  \nAbout Uncountry \nWinner of the 2015 Noemi Press Fiction Award. UNCOUNTRY: A MYTHOLOGY is a collection of narratives that aim to expand creative pathways into historical space\, particularly histories of migration and displacement. It is divided into four Histories: Ash\, Breath\, Hunger and Blood. The four Histories explore the gaps between “remembered” official history and the more unreliable spaces of private memory and unspoken unofficial history. The storylines re–contextualize and re–imagine content from mythic spaces\, such as German folktales and Eastern European Jewish lore\, historical narratives as well as anecdotes from oral family memory. UNCOUNTRY furthermore explores the notion of invisible landscapes; an accumulation of stories\, memories\, dreams and desires\, over–layering the visible place: a record of the human\, animal and geographical history that we move through.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/yanara-friedland-claire-marie-stancek/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170720T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170720T173000
DTSTAMP:20260403T123820
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SUMMARY:Community Voices: Poets Speak Raina León
DESCRIPTION:Every Thursday at 5pm from June 29 – August 10\, join us for Community Voices: Poets Speak at the Museum of the African Diaspora where Bay Area Cave Canem poets reflect on themes of our current exhibition. Now on view\, The Ease of Fiction presents the work of four African artists living in the United States as the foundation of a critical discussion about history\, fact and fiction. The readings and discussion of original work will take place in the gallery for a maximum of 30 minutes. The series culminates with a reception and an evening of poetry by the participating poets\, along with Arisa White and James Cagney\, on Thursday\, August 17\, 6:30-8pm. Free Admission. \nFounded by Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady in 1996 to remedy the under-representation and isolation of African American poets in the literary landscape\, Cave Canem Foundation is a home for the many voices of African American poetry and is committed to cultivating the artistic and professional growth of African American poets. \nCommunity Voices: Poets Speak is curated by Arisa White\, poet\, writer & educator. \nRaina León \nRaina J. León is the author of three collections of poetry\, Canticle of Idols\, Boogeyman Dawn\, sombra: (dis)locate (2016) and the chapbook\, profeta without refuge (2016).  She has received fellowships and residencies with Macondo\, Cave Canem\, CantoMundo\, Montana Artists Refuge\, the Macdowell Colony\, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts\, Vermont Studio Center\, among others.  She is a founding editor of The Acentos Review\, an online quarterly\, international journal devoted to the promotion and publication of Latinx arts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/community-voices-poets-speak-raina-leon/
LOCATION:Museum of the African Diaspora\, 685 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94105\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170720T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170720T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T123820
CREATED:20170616T121311Z
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SUMMARY:InsideStorytime RESILIENCE
DESCRIPTION:InsideStorytime RESILIENCE\, on Thursday July 20th\, 7-9 pm\, at Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster Street\, Oakland\, will feature Sarah Gailey (River of Teeth)\, September Williams (Chasing Mercury)\, Fisayo Adeyeye (Cradles)\, Andrea Passwater\, and Alex Ivey. MCd by James Warner (All Her Father’s Guns).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-resilience/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170720T210000
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SUMMARY:Casey FitzSimons
DESCRIPTION:Casey FitzSimons has poems in Red Wheelbarrow\, Mezzo Cammin\, and numerous other print and online journals. She has first place awards from Bay Area Poets Coalition\, Mendocino Coast Writers Conference\, and Ina Coolbrith Circle and has been honored by River Styx\, Writecorner Press\, The Rita Dove Awards\, and the Soul-Making Keats competitions. She has published 12 chapbooks\, including Pushing Sky Aside (2016) and The Sharp Edges of Knowing (2015). She donates all her book proceeds to Doctors Without Borders. Casey taught art for many years and her reviews of Bay Area exhibitions appeared often in Artweek. She has a master’s degree in Fine Arts from San Jose State University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/casey-fitzsimons/
LOCATION:Willow Glen Library\, 1157 Minnesota Ave\, San Jose \, CA\, 95125\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170720T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170720T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T123820
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SUMMARY:Andrew Roe w/ Ethel Rohan
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is excited to host Andrew Roe reading from his new book\, the collection of stories Where You Live. He’ll be in conversation with our friend and yours Ethel Rohan. Please join us! \nThe California of Where You Live might have sun\, surf\, and sand\, but it’s more densely populated with cracking marriages\, accidental pregnancies\, and shitty jobs. Andrew Roe’s Californians face sharp points of change: Stay or go? Love or leave? Run or get stuck? Their choices\, like our own\, reveal life’s stark limitations and its wide-open vistas all at once. \nFull of lush prose and unforgettable imagery\, the stories in Where You Live shine an unforgiving yet shimmering light on longing\, loss\, and the everyday catastrophes of life.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/andrew-roe-with-ethel-rohan/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170720T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170720T213000
DTSTAMP:20260403T123820
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SUMMARY:Sherman Alexie
DESCRIPTION:Sherman Alexie’s work is canonical. Novels like The Absolutely True Story of a Part-Time Indian and The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven are standards in classrooms across the country. Few writers have captured the American experience in quite the way Alexie has. \nNow he faces head-on the ghosts of his past\, grappling with the life and the upbringing that inspired the novels and stories that vaulted him to literary stardom. Join us for an evening of raw and honest reflection with Sherman Alexie.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sherman-alexie/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170720T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170720T213000
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SUMMARY:Tamara Shopsin
DESCRIPTION:Tamara Shopsin discusses her new book from MCD\, Arbitrary Stupid Goal. \n\nPraise for Arbitrary Stupid Goal \n“Tamara Shopsin’s new memoir is hilarious. Just in like the West Village itself\, you zigzag along on a fun adventure never knowing who you are going to meet.  What a fun read!”—Amy Sedaris \n  \n“Arbitrary Stupid Goal is a completely riveting world―when I looked up from its pages regular life seemed boring and safe and modern like one big iPhone. This book captures not just a lost New York but a whole lost way of life.”―Miranda July  \n  \n“Tamara Shopsin’s memoir is a funny and absorbing portrait of the city in a grubbier\, less corporate incarnation. If you believe\, as she does—and I do—that New York is ‘matter-of-fact\, the best place on earth\,’ then read this book. And if you don’t believe that\, after you read this book\, you will.”—Roz Chast \n\nAbout Arbitrary Stupid Goal \nIn Arbitrary Stupid Goal\, Tamara Shopsin takes the reader on a pointillist time-travel trip to the Greenwich Village of her bohemian 1970s childhood\, a funky\, tight-knit small town in the big city\, long before Sex and the City tours and luxury condos. The center of Tamara’s universe is Shopsin’s\, her family’s legendary greasy spoon\, aka The Store\, run by her inimitable dad\, Kenny a loquacious\, contrary\, huge-hearted man who\, aside from dishing up New York’s best egg salad on rye\, is Village sheriff\, philosopher\, and fixer all at once. All comers find a place at Shopsin’s table and feast on Kenny’s tall tales and trenchant advice along with the incomparable chili con carne. \n  \nFilled with clever illustrations and witty\, nostalgic photographs and graphics\, and told in a sly\, elliptical narrative that is both hilarious and endearing\, Arbitrary Stupid Goal is an offbeat memory-book mosaic about the secrets of living an unconventional life\, which is becoming a forgotten art.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tamara-shopsin/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170720T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170720T213000
DTSTAMP:20260403T123820
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash: Noah Blaustein\, Kathryn Nuernberger\, + Jacques J. Rancourt
DESCRIPTION:Noah Blaustein’s book of poems is Flirt. Christopher Merrill says\, “Like all great lovers\, he promises the world—and then delivers\, in poems that…address the central issues of the heart: how we flirt before we think—and how we then discern order in the new dispensation in which we find ourselves.” Widely published in literary journals\, he is the editor of the anthology Motion: American Sports Poems\, which was an editor’s pick of National Public Radio and a Librarian’s pick of the New York Public Library. \nKathryn Nuernberger’s latest book of poems is The End of Pink. Aimee Nezhukumatahil says\, “The remarkable designs of a landscape created by Kathryn Nuernberger give us such a stamp of hoof\, wonder\, and wit…This is an unforgettable collection of sly-sexy poems of desire\, grief\, and motherhood.” Her first collection\, Rag & Bone\, won the 2010 Elixir Press Antivenom Prize. She is the director of Pleiades Press and has received fellowships from the American Antiquarian Society and the Bakken Museum of Electricity in Life to research aspects of the history of science and medicine. \nJacques J. Rancourt’s debut book of poems is Novena\, winner of the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Prize from Pleiades Press. D. A. Powell says\, “Jacques Rancourt is a votary of desire and a faithful disciple to memory…This is a holy book\, a pilgrim’s progress of erotic\, mystical and terrifying beauty.” A former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University\, his poems have been widely published in literary journals\, including Kenyon Review and Best New Poets 2014.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-noah-blaustein-kathryn-nuernberger-jacques-j-rancourt/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170721T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170721T213000
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SUMMARY:Mike Lala\, D.A. Powell + Jacques Rancourt
DESCRIPTION:Mike Lala\, D.A. Powell and Jacques Rancourt read from their latest poetry collections. \n\nAbout Exit Theater \nWinner of the 2016 Colorado Prize for Poetry \nExit Theater casts classical elegy\, with dazzling formal innovation\, into a staggering work of contemporary\, political polyphony. Through monologues\, performance scripts\, and poems of exquisite prosody\, Mike Lala examines the human figure as subject and object\, enemy and ally in the context of a progressively defigured and hostile world. Catullus\, Shakespeare\, Cy Twombly\, and Lydia Delectorskaya echo across engagements with Israeli generals\, accused terrorists\, State Department employees\, nuclear scientists\, SaturdayNight Live actors\, war criminals\, malware\, and a host of mythic\, literary\, and half-extant spectral characters. Amid the cacophony\, Lala implicates every actor\, including himself\, in a web of shared culpability vis-a-vis consumerism\, representation\, speaking\, writing\, and making art against the backdrop of the endless\, open wars of a post Cold War\, post-2001 era. Exit Theater is a debut of and against its time\, a book about war\, art\, and what it means to make art in a time of war. \n  \nAbout Useless Landscape\, or A Guide for Boys \nWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award \nD. A. Powell’s fifth book of poetry\, Useless Landscape\, or A Guide for Boys\, explores the darker side of divisions and developments\, the interstitial spaces of boonies\, backstage\, bathhouse\, and bar. With witty banter\, emotional resolve\, and powerful lyricism\, this collection demonstrates Powell’s exhilarating range. \n  \nAbout Novena \nIn poems inspired by and sometimes borrowing their forms from the novena\, a nine-day Catholic prayer addressing and seeking intercession from the Virgin Mary\, Jacques Rancourt explores the complexities of faith\, desire\, beauty\, and justice. Novena is a collection that invites prayer not to symbols of dogmatic perfection but to those who are outcast or maligned\, LGBTQ people\, people in prison\, people who resist\, people who suffer and whose suffering has not been redeemed. In Novena\, the Virgin Mary is recast as a drag queen\, religious icons are merged with those who are abolished\, and spiritual isolation is scrutinized in a queer pastoral.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mike-lala-d-a-powell-jacques-rancourt/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170722T110000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170722T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T123820
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LAST-MODIFIED:20170722T000617Z
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SUMMARY:Wolfman @ The 2017 San Francisco Art Book Fair
DESCRIPTION:The 2017 SF Art Book Fair is an annual multi-day festival of artists’ publications. This event is FREE and OPEN to the public and will feature artists’ books\, art catalogs\, monographs\, periodicals\, zines\, printed ephemera\, and artists’ multiples. These works will be presented by over 100 independent publishers\, antiquarian dealers\, artists\, collectors\, and enthusiasts. Over the course of the weekend\, the fair will be complemented by a diverse range of talks\, discussions\, book launches\, on and off-site special projects\, exhibitions and signings. \nThe mission of the fair is to foster the unique art publishing community of the Bay Area while providing a platform for national and international publishers to exhibit their work to a new audience. \nThe SF Art Book Fair will be held at Minnesota Street Project. The project’s landmark location\, 1275 Minnesota Street\, houses 10 galleries\, a not-for-profit\, temporary exhibitions spaces\, media room\, and a recently opened restaurant.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/wolfman-the-2017-san-francisco-art-book-fair/
LOCATION:Minnesota Street Project\, 1275 Minnesota Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170722T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170722T220000
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SUMMARY:Adobe Bookstore's 28th Birthday Party!
DESCRIPTION:Come join art lovers\, book makers\, booksellers\, artists and neighbors for a celebration in a leftist\, cooperative\, used bookstore and gallery in the heart of San Francisco’s Mission District. We’ll be celebrating our founder Andrew McKinley’s birthday\, our fourth anniversary in our space on 24th St.\, our 28th anniversary in the Mission\, and the beautiful work of booksellers and artists Kate Rosenberger and Justin Carder in the Backroom Gallery. Grab a burrito at Taqueria Vallarta\, a coffee at Philz\, and wander over to toast great people and great content in a long time Mission institution. See you soon!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/adobe-bookstores-28th-birthday-party/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170723T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170723T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T123820
CREATED:20170702T111947Z
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SUMMARY:Open Mic: Fiestas Fridas Edition
DESCRIPTION:All topics\, all styles\, all skill levels welcome! Come in at 2:30 to sign up.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/open-mic-fiestas-fridas-edition/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170723T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170723T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T123820
CREATED:20170702T110915Z
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SUMMARY:Fateme Banishoeib
DESCRIPTION:Adobe welcomes poet Fateme Banishoeib reading from her new book. \nThe Whisper  is a lyrical engagement with the intimacy and audacity of being human and it reminds of what it is to hide from the world\, and in doing so become hidden to our own selves. It speaks of leadership of self first before the leadership of others. \nFateme is a strategic leadership consultant. She defines herself many and multitudes.  She gives talks on leadership and human-centered business. Her book of poetry called The Whisper\,  charts the journey of leadership of self before the leadership of others
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fateme-banishoeib/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170723T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170723T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T123820
CREATED:20170604T124006Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170622T023058Z
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Poetry Marathon
DESCRIPTION:Guest curator: Chloe Veylit.\nReaders:  Brandon Brown\, Kazumi Chin\, Vanessa Flores\, Nick Johnson\, Joseph Lease\, Michelle Lin\, Carrie Murphy\, and Denise Newman.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-poetry-marathon-2/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170724T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170724T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T123820
CREATED:20170622T014002Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170622T014002Z
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SUMMARY:Elaine Brown
DESCRIPTION:Elaine Brown – “E Spoken”\nI have been writing ever since my Mother and siblings taught me how to hold a pen. I grew up listening to the stories my Grandmother and Mother would tell me about my family and their struggles wondering how I could change things. So\, history and writing became my passion. I have been writing Free Style Poetry for almost 30 years combining past and present issues that affect our daily lives; motivating people to change their mindsets.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elaine-brown/
LOCATION:Himalayan Flavors\, 1585 University Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170725T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170725T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T123820
CREATED:20170503T234247Z
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SUMMARY:A Bunch of Bad Hombres: Immigrant Writers Respond to Trump
DESCRIPTION:More details coming soon.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-bunch-of-bad-hombres-immigrant-writers-respond-to-trump/
LOCATION:SF Public Library\, 100 Larkin Street\, San Francisco\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170725T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170725T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T123820
CREATED:20170622T012355Z
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SUMMARY:Bob Anbian + Randy Fingland
DESCRIPTION:Tuesdays at North Beach is a highly-respected weekly poetry series celebrating internationally acclaimed poets and showcasing local talent. Past guests have included Jonathan Richman\, Diane di Prima\, California Poet Laureate Al Young and freshly-discovered poets from our sister program\, Poets 11. \nThe series is presented by Friends and curated by Friends’ Poet-in-Residence\, Jack Hirschman. \nInterested in reading? Please contact Friends’ Literary Director Byron Spooner at byron.spooner@friendssfpl.org or call (415) 522-8602.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bob-anbian-randy-fingland/
LOCATION:North Beach\, SF Public Library\, 850 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170725T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170725T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T123820
CREATED:20170720T034356Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170720T034356Z
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SUMMARY:Anita Cruz + Chris Carosi
DESCRIPTION:Join us every Tuesday evening in the historic literary epicenter of San Francisco to hear poets from near and far read their work! \nTuesdays at North Beach is a highly-respected weekly poetry series celebrating internationally acclaimed poets and showcasing local talent. Past guests have included Jonathan Richman\, Diane di Prima\, California Poet Laureate Al Young and freshly-discovered poets from our sister program\, Poets 11. \nThe series is presented by Friends and curated by Friends’ Poet-in-Residence\, Jack Hirschman. \nInterested in reading? Please contact Friends’ Literary Director Byron Spooner at byron.spooner@friendssfpl.org or call (415) 522-8602.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anita-cruz-chris-carosi/
LOCATION:North Beach\, SF Public Library\, 850 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Michelle Richmond
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is elated to host a launch party for the one and only Michelle Richmond\, reading from her new novel The Marriage Pact. Join us! \nNewlyweds Alice and Jake are a picture-perfect couple. Alice\, once a singer in a well-known rock band\, is now a successful lawyer. Jake is a partner in an up-and-coming psychology practice. Their life together holds endless possibilities. After receiving an enticing wedding gift from one of Alice’s prominent clients\, they decide to join an exclusive and mysterious group known only as The Pact. \nThe goal of The Pact seems simple: to keep marriages happy and intact. And most of its rules make sense. Always answer the phone when your spouse calls. Exchange thoughtful gifts monthly. Plan a trip together once per quarter. . . .  \nNever mention The Pact to anyone.\n            \nAlice and Jake are initially seduced by the glamorous parties\, the sense of community\, their widening social circle of like-minded couples. \nAnd then one of them breaks the rules. \nThe young lovers are about to discover that for adherents to The Pact\, membership\, like marriage\, is for life. And The Pact will go to any lengths to enforce that rule. \nFor Jake and Alice\, the marriage of their dreams is about to become their worst nightmare.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michelle-richmond/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170726T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170726T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T123820
CREATED:20170712T021032Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170712T021032Z
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer-East Bay: YOU Are the Author!
DESCRIPTION:If you are a queer-identified author and would like to read at our event\, write us at: PerfectlyQueerSF@gmail.com\nYou will have 5 minutes to talk about your work and read. The number of total readers is limited\, so we will take those who respond first.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-east-bay-you-are-the-author/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170726T210000
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CREATED:20170722T012610Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170722T012610Z
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SUMMARY:Barry Kraft: Shakespeare Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Join Barry Kraft for a celebration of all things Shakespeare! Kraft has acted in all 38 of Shakespeare’s plays\, playing more than 100 roles in 86 full productions. He spent 28 seasons as an actor and dramaturg at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/barry-kraft-shakespeare-celebration/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170726T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170726T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T123820
CREATED:20170619T134737Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170621T012356Z
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SUMMARY:Andrew Sean Greer
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts one of our absolute favorite writers\, Andrew Sean Greer\, for the launch of his new novel Less. Please join us! \nArthur Less\, a mid-list novelist\, is approaching his 50th birthday\, and he needs to grow up. But first he needs to get out: Arthur’s much younger\, exceedingly beautiful ex-boyfriend is getting married\, and the last thing Arthur wants to do is attend the wedding. So he accepts every half-baked literary invitation that’s recently come his way\, slaps together his frequent flier miles\, leaves San Francisco\, and takes a trip around the world. \nHis travels take him to Mexico\, Spain\, Italy\, Germany\, Morocco\, Vietnam\, India\, and Japan. Along the way\, he finds love\, despair\, adventure\, and plenty of misadventure\, is forced to come to terms with the fleeting of youth and the realities of life—in often quite hilarious ways.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/andrew-sean-greer/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170726T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170726T213000
DTSTAMP:20260403T123820
CREATED:20170621T125310Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170621T125310Z
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SUMMARY:Samantha Hunt
DESCRIPTION:Samantha Hunt discusses her new story collection\, The Dark Dark with Clara Sankey. \nPraise for Samantha Hunt \n“Samantha Hunt is astonishing. Her every sentence electrifies. Her characters demand our closest attention. Her new book contains everything that I want in a novel. If I could long-distance mesmerize you\, dear reader\, into picking up this book and buying it and reading it at once\, believe me: I would.”—Kelly Link\, author of Get in Trouble\, Magic for Beginners \n“I’m speechless. Mr. Splitfoot is so inventive\, so new; I haven’t read anything like it in years. On the surface it’s about false spirituality and the most demented road trip across New York State ever attempted\, but it’s also about the horrible ties that bind us and the small acts of redemption that make life almost okay. On top of that\, it’s a thrilling page-turner. I couldn’t stop reading it.”—Gary Shteyngart\, author of Little Failure\, Super Sad True Love Story \n“Mr. Splitfoot is lyrical\, echoing\, deeply strange\, with a quality of sustained hallucination. It is the best book on communicating with the dead since William Lindsay Gresham’s Nightmare Alley\, but it swaps out that novel’s cynicism for a more life-affirming sense of uncertainty.”—Luc Sante\, author of Low Life \n\nAbout The Dark Dark \nFrom the acclaimed author of Mr. Splitfoot\, Samantha Hunt’s first collection of stories\, The Dark Dark\, blends the literary and the fantastic and brings us characters on the verge―girls turning into women\, women turning into deer\, people doubling or becoming ghosts\, and more \n  \nStrange things happen all around us all the time\, but is it best to acknowledge or to turn away from moments when the weird pokes its way into our ordinary lives? \n  \nIn these marvelously inventive stories\, Samantha Hunt imagines numerous ways in which lives might be altered by the otherworldly. An FBI agent falls in love with a robot built for a suicide mission. A young woman unintentionally cheats on her husband when she is transformed\, nightly\, into a deer. Two strangers become lovers and find themselves somehow responsible for the resurrection of a dog. A woman tries to start her life anew after the loss of a child but cannot help riddling that new life with lies. Thirteen pregnant teenagers develop a strange relationship with the Founding Fathers of American history. A lonely woman’s fertility treatments become the stuff of science fiction. \n  \nMagic intrudes. Technology betrays and disappoints. Infidelities lead us beyond the usual conflict. Our bodies change\, reproduce\, decay\, and surprise. With her characteristic unguarded gaze and offbeat humor\, Hunt has conjured stories that urge an understanding of youth and mortality\, magnification and loss\, and hold out the hope that we can know one another more deeply or at least stand side by side to observe the mystery of the world.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/samantha-hunt/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170726T213000
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CREATED:20170722T002821Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170722T002821Z
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SUMMARY:Literary Pachanga
DESCRIPTION:Literary Pachanga showcases three Chicano authors and a singer-songwriter \nPegasus Books celebrates Mexican American Literature with a Literary Pachanga for the community on Wednesday\, July 26. Chicano writers Alan Chazaro\, Sara Campos\, Christine Granados and Northern California singer/songwriter Alyssa Granados will perform from their collective works. The event is free and open to the public. \nAlan Chazaro is a first-generation Chicano with roots in the San Francisco Bay Area and Veracruz. His poetry has been featured in the Intro Journals Project from the Association of Writers & Writing Programs and has also appeared or is forthcoming in Iron Horse Review\, Huizache\, BorderSenses\, Pilgrimage Magazine\, and other publications. He continues to teach high school in California\, and likes to doodle while travelling new cities.\nhttp://agchazaro.wixsite.com/poetry \nSara Campos has published fiction\, poetry and nonfiction articles in numerous publications including\, St. Anne’s Review\, Rio Grande Review\, Literary Mama\, 580-Split\, Colorlines\, and the San Francisco Chronicle. She is the recipient of the Letras Latinas Fellowship\, an Elizabeth George Foundation grant\, residencies with Hedgebrook\, the Anderson Center and fellowships with Macondo and VONA. She co-directs the New American Story Project\, an online storytelling project on unaccompanied immigrant children from Central America.\nhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/sara-campos-83571218/ \nChristine Granados has been a Spur Award finalist and received Sandra Cisneros’ literary prize the Alfredo Cisneros del Moral Foundation Award in 2006 for her first book of fiction Brides and Sinners in El Chuco\, published by the University of Arizona Press and her stories have been in many anthologies. She will read from and discuss her second book\, a novella and short stories about strong Mexican American women who live along the border\, titled Fight Like a Man and Other Stories We Tell Our Children.\nhttp://christinegranados.com \nAlyssa Granados’ diverse catalog of guitar styles come from a range of influences spanning from folk to dub. She is half of the Electronic Funk duo Dreamers Paradise out of Boise\, ID.\nhttps://soundcloud.com/cadence_boise
URL:https://litseen.com/event/literary-pachanga/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Community Voices: Poets Speak Indigo Moor
DESCRIPTION:Every Thursday at 5pm from June 29 – August 10\, join us for Community Voices: Poets Speak at the Museum of the African Diaspora where Bay Area Cave Canem poets reflect on themes of our current exhibition. Now on view\, The Ease of Fiction presents the work of four African artists living in the United States as the foundation of a critical discussion about history\, fact and fiction. The readings and discussion of original work will take place in the gallery for a maximum of 30 minutes. The series culminates with a reception and an evening of poetry by the participating poets\, along with Arisa White and James Cagney\, on Thursday\, August 17\, 6:30-8pm. Free Admission. \nFounded by Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady in 1996 to remedy the under-representation and isolation of African American poets in the literary landscape\, Cave Canem Foundation is a home for the many voices of African American poetry and is committed to cultivating the artistic and professional growth of African American poets. \nCommunity Voices: Poets Speak is curated by Arisa White\, poet\, writer & educator. \nIndigo Moor \nCurrent Poet Laureate of Sacramento\, Indigo Moor is the author of three books of poetry: Tap-Root (Main Street Rag\, 2006)\, Through the Stonecutter’s Window (Northwestern University Press\, 2010)\, and In the Room of Thirsts & Hungers (Main Street Rag\, July 2017). His stage play\, Live! at the Excelsior\, was a finalist for the Images Theatre Playwright Award and has been optioned for a full-length film. Indigo is the Artist in Residence for 916 ink and on the advisory board for the Sacramento Poetry Center.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/community-voices-poets-speak-indigo-moor/
LOCATION:Museum of the African Diaspora\, 685 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94105\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170727T200000
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CREATED:20170720T032529Z
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SUMMARY:My Heart Hemmed In Happy Hour
DESCRIPTION:Join us for happy hour at the CAT and Two Lines offices to celebrate the release of My Heart Hemmed In\, our third book by Marie NDiaye. Stop by after work for a drink and a snack and hear readings from the book by Two Lines staff. \nTranslated from the French by Jordan Stump\, My Heart Hemmed In tells the story of Nadia and her husband Ange\, two middle-aged schoolteachers who slowly realize they’re despised by everyone in their community. When a wound mysteriously appears on Ange’s stomach\, Nadia desperately tries to save her husband’s life. This leads Nadia on an adventure that propels her out of her small world and into a reality that is deeply troubling and at the same time all-too-familiar.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/my-heart-hemmed-in-happy-hour/
LOCATION:Center for the Art of Translation office\, 582 Market St #700\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170727T213000
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SUMMARY:Ian Stansel
DESCRIPTION:Ian Stansel discusses his new novel\, The Last Cowboys of San Geronimo. \n\nPraise for The Last Cowboys of San Geronimo \n“A taut and powerful modern Western. I picked up The Last Cowboys of San Geronimo and did not put it down again until I had read the last\, moving sentence. Follow Lena on horseback as she pursues a killer through the wilds of Northern California\, and in the end you will find yourself someplace unexpected. One of the most compelling novels I’ve read in a long time.”—Eowyn Ivey\, author of the To the Bright Edge of the World and the Pulitzer finalist The Snow Child \n\n“Although set in the twentieth-first century\, this fine novel has a mythic power and resonance. Ian Stansel is a gifted young writer who starts his novel at a gallop and never lets up until the story’s final reckoning.”—Ron Rash\, author of Serena\, Above the Waterfall \n\n“Ian Stansel’s debut novel is so rich in evocative detail and gripping incident that I thought at several moments I was riding fast next to its sharply drawn characters across rough ground.  Like All the Pretty Horses before it\, The Last Cowboys of San Geronimo inks an indelible portrait of a hard\, gorgeous world that is both timeless and in deep\, momentous flux. I’m grateful to Mr. Stansel for having written it.”—Laird Hunt\, author of Neverhome and The Evening Road \n\nAbout The Last Cowboys of San Geronimo \nA contemporary Western debut about two brothers locked in a deadly feud\, a woman on horseback trailing her husband’s killer\, and the inescapable ties of home and family\nWhen Silas Van Loy flees home on horseback to avoid capture for his brother’s murder\, he is soon followed by both the police and his brother’s wife\, Lena\, who is intent on exacting revenge. She reluctantly lets her trusted stable assistant join her in a journey across the wilds of Northern California in the hopes of catching Silas for one final showdown. Stansel follows the chase and shares the story of the brothers’ rise from hardscrabble childhood to their reign as the region’s preeminent horse trainers\, tracking the tense sibling rivalry that ultimately leads to the elder’s death. \n  \nA fully realized tale that challenges notions of the modern West\, The Last Cowboys of San Geronimo will satisfy fans of Kent Haruf\, Larry McMurtry\, Molly Gloss\, and Smith Henderson\, and establish Stansel as a new voice in this grand tradition.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ian-stansel/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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